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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia,
said last week there was no evidence the agent was hit by
friendly fire during the incident at a Washington hotel on April
25, but she went beyond that Sunday in saying a shot from one of
Cole Tomas Allen's weapons hit the officer's bullet-resistant
vest.
“We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot
from the defendant’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was
intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service
officer,” she told CNN's “State of the Union.” “It is
definitively his bullet."
Allen, who remains behind bars for now pending his trial, was
injured during the attack but was not shot. The officer
survived.
His attorneys on Sunday filed a document with the court saying
they learned he was no longer on suicide watch and sought to
withdraw a motion formally seeking to remove him from such
supervision.
On Thursday, Pirro posted a video on social media showing the
moment that authorities say a man with guns and knives attempted
to storm the media gala. Questions have lingered about whose
bullet struck the officer as the suspect ran through security
with a long gun toward the ballroom packed with journalists,
administration officials and others.
A phone call to lawyers representing Allen went unanswered on
Sunday.
Allen has been charged with attempted assassination of the
president, as well as two additional firearms counts, including
discharging a weapon during a crime of violence. He faces up to
life in prison if convicted of the assassination count alone.
Allen, 31, is from Torrance, California. He worked as a
part-time tutor for a test preparation company and is an amateur
video game developer.
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